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Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 5, Special Tabulations of Population 60 Years and Over (ICPSR 8658)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

These data, which correspond to tables provided in the
documentation, summarize information on the United States population
aged 60 years and over that was collected in the 1980 Census of
Population and Housing. The tables were prepared by the Bureau of the
Census at the request of the National Institute on Aging. The tables
are comprised of cross-tabulations of both "100 percent items" and
"sample items" with age (bracketed in five year intervals from 60-64
through 90+). Race (White/Black/American Indian/Asian... (more info)

These data, which correspond to tables provided in the
documentation, summarize information on the United States population
aged 60 years and over that was collected in the 1980 Census of
Population and Housing. The tables were prepared by the Bureau of the
Census at the request of the National Institute on Aging. The tables
are comprised of cross-tabulations of both "100 percent items" and
"sample items" with age (bracketed in five year intervals from 60-64
through 90+). Race (White/Black/American Indian/Asian Pacific
Islander/Spanish Origin) is a factor in all of the tables, either as
race of respondent, of householder, or of family head. The file
contains data for a complete set of tables for each of the 50 States,
the District of Columbia and five territories, the nine Census
divisions, the four Census regions, and the United States as a whole.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 5, Special Tabulations of Population 60 Years and Over. ICPSR08658-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 198?. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08658.v1

The data are in the form of 72 tables per geographic
unit of analysis, or 4,680 tables in all. Each set of tables shows
cross-tabulations of age with different combinations of 37 other items
from the 1980 Census. Each row of data constitutes a record. There are
1,430,000 records (approximately 150-1500 rows of data per table per
geographic unit). There are seven columns of data per table,
corresponding to the age brackets.

Methodology

Sample:
Estimates for "sample items" from the 1980 Census have
been "exploded" or expanded to represent the entire U.S. population.
Other items are "100% items", such as age, sex, race, Spanish origin,
marital status, and household relationship.

Data Source:

United States Census of Population and Housing, 1980

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1987-02-26

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB8658.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.